Kevin Hargrave, a native of Salisbury, North Carolina, settled in Enterprise, AL after a eight year stint in the army, as a young child he found his passion very early, often getting into trouble with his parents and teachers for drawing on walls and desks. His first interests were drawing comic book heroes as well as creating his own cartoons which later migrated into rending portraits in the mediums of graphic pencils and pastels.

During his time in the military he did very little in art until a dramatic chance occurred in his life in 2000. Today Kevin has a renewed love for art with a hunger that is only satisfied by expressing himself freely on paper. "I am fascinated" he states, "by the swordplay of shadows and lights that can be produced in art; the drama; and the moods acting out an intricate play that cannot be scripted by words and inadvertently shakes the thought processes and tugs at the heart"

Kevin has received several awards to include winning a merit award at the Alabama National Fair in Montgomery with and more recently the 2008 CCAA Resident Artist Award at Piney Woods Arts Festival. Kevin Hargrave, was also the illustrator for the book titled "What Men Should Do" by Larry Jones.

I do commisioned work as well and sell prints of my art. My phone number is: 334.390.7298. You can contact me by e-mail also. kevin_hargrave@yahoo.com. Thanks you for your interests.

Artist Statement:

You could say I am working on having a style without a style. I am very interested in capturing the human spirit on paper and I believe that light and shadow along with color, influences how we view an artistic piece. I am into some different things today. Art evolves and so must the artist. These days I try not to focus so much on drawing every little detail as I am in accurately rendering the shapes, the colors, the textures that I see on the inside of me. Loose strokes, bold lines, splashes of color seemingly out of place and even mixing different media that would ordinarily seem unheard of. I do love realism, Rembrandt and Da Vinci being all time favorites, but I also appreciate other styles and try my best to be free to change by incorporating other styles into my work.